Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Springfield ISD

Another data to show schools are largely wasteful and hand ringers don't care about the education.

Chicago is going to have 4-Day school weeks in order to save money. It's not they don't have the money, rather, they wasted money on other unnecessary stuff, mostly in the form of administrative cost.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/four.day.school.2.1583104.html

Having 4 day school week reduces the total school days by 144 days or 28 weeks in 4 years. The figure equals to 2/3 of full school year. This figure implies that almost 16.5% of the school time is unnecessary based on this figure. It also implies that those who has gone to school before them, 16.5% of their life time has been unnecessary.

The Springfield ISD's expenditure is at $189,339,719. ([1] page 2) @ 15,123 students @ page "[2] iv". This comes down to $12,519.85 per student.

63.4% of student either meet or exceed the reading tests.
69.4% students either meet or exceed the math test.
(3.page 26)

This is how the Springfield ISD of Illinois spends money.

[1] http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/about/budget/FY2010Budget-StateForm.pdf
[2] http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/about/financialreports/SD186CAFR09.pdf
[3] http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/attachments/files/f_12373-163-65f.pdf

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Biases within the News Stories

At its core, Obama's proposal would extend health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans while cracking down on insurance company practices such as denying coverage on the basis of a pre-existing medical condition. [Source]

Above sentence appears in the recent AP article written by Alan Fram. It should also say, Obama’s proposal would force government run health care to all its citizens regardless of one’s preferences. His plan would add costs to all individuals without due process, 14th amendment. Parts of their life is taken away in order for someone else to force someone else to pay for something as a constitutional right that isn't covered in the constitution.

Also, the sentence uses the word “cracking down” as to setup insurance companies as denying coverage on the pre-existing medical condition should be stopped. If the health is important for an individual, one should get the health insurance to hedge against the bad health for one’s future. That is what the “insurance” is. However, if one doesn’t, an individual shouldn’t be allowed to buy something after the fact. This is a typical juvenile ploy, eliminating responsibility. This is like a football game where the Team A won over Team B by having 3 run touchdown scores then Team B saying that the run touchdowns do not count as scores.

There can’t be a system where someone is allowed to have something after one has selected to do otherwise without counting the cost associated with the choice. Just mere going back costs time. The problem is that the variable time isn’t recoverable; one can’t just go back to the past and change things. This isn't the Sims 1, 2, or 3, or the SimCity computer games where these gods can play around with some unknown fictional characters and objects. The very idea the One, the Obama wants to force others to pay for the time cost and to set up a system to ignore this very intrinsic fact of life is crazy in a psychic term.

But the real problem is how all these reporters distort the truth while printing their agendas. Most people who read their stuffs do not have ability to read between the lines. We don’t have free press. We have a left-leaning socialist press, who eats together, travels together, sleeps together, write together, and read together – one giant single-minded groupie confab.

All the writers, teleprompter readers out there, and their fellow illusionists, stop it. It’s embarrassing to show your lack of discernments, and your constant fanning the obvious agendas driven pamphlets is destructive.

GMAC's Pay

Obama Administration's GEO at GMAC gets $1.2 Million for 6 weeks works but no phony outrages by the butt boys in the media and the President. It really is none of Obama's business whether some CEO makes $1 versus $100 million a year. But, Obama and his ilks always belly ache about executives' pay. However, when it comes to their own executives pay, they say nothing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/business/03gmac.html

GMAC’s Michael Carpenter Got $1.2 Million for 45 Days’ Work - NYTimes.com

Michael Carpenter’s pay for a month and a half of work was equivalent to full-year pay of $9.5 million, according to a regulatory filing.

Self Determination

The idea of self-determination has been around for a long time, and it is the basis for USA and why USA even exists. Like everything else, there are faults to USA but in large part, USA is very very good, and no other countries can hold candle to USA.

These laws and more laws on top of already heavily padded laws prevent self determination. These laws are beget from more government. Everyday, more the US congress acts, more laws they create, more self determination they take away from individuals, smaller the individuals get. there is a inverse relations regarding the laws and individual free to chose, act, or do whatever. That's why there are only 10 commandments. Our Congress is more brilliant, more wise, and more clever than God, so, they creates hundreds of laws every single day. The bigger the government, more things that these "law makers" have to do where more laws are made. Most of their "helping the little guy" laws are destructive and counter-productive to our daily lives. Why do we make them little gods? We already have God, and there is the liberal idea of separation of Church and State. Why do we let these little gods telling us what to do with their arbitrary moral value codes.

We need less of government in all of our life. If I was an emperor, I would undo almost everything that they created, FDIC, FHA, Fannie/Freddy, USPS, Amtrek, Department of Education, EPA, NEA, Product safety commission, NPR/PBS, community channels, FCC, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and many others.

All of these things stifles innovation because everybody is boxed in, there are no rooms to innovate and to stretch.

This is why big-government is dangerous. Because these government theocrats push their arbitrary values that has no fundamental basis onto rest of us. Their values are "whatever!" values, thus they really have no values because in order for something to have value, they have to have fixed standard, which they don't have. Everything are always moving & living and breathing. All of the aforementioned government agencies are the products of their arbitrary theologies that are hurting this country and the world - the world depends on USA.

The patent itself is something I do not dislike but the idea of who is granting the patent is absurd. The patent should be granted by the market. The market should dictate what is patentable, not some unanswerable bureaucrats.

The peer-review causes things to bubble up and bubble down. The market place picks the winners and losers. We need to let the free market play out instead of socially engineered bureaucrats engineering our lives.

February 2010 Car Sales

Brand	Sales Number	Market Share	Sub Brands	Sales Number	Market Share
BMW	15,100	1.93%	Mini	-	0.00%	15,100	1.93%
Chrysler	84,449	10.81%			0.00%	84,449	10.81%
Ford	137,644	17.62%	Volvo	4,641	0.59%	142,285	18.21%
GM	138,849	17.77%	Cadillac	-	0.00%	138,849	0
Honda	81,671	10.45%	Acura	8,939	1.14%	90,610	11.60%
Hyundai	32,242	4.13%	Genesis	1,762	0.23%	58,056	7.43%
Kia	24,052	3.08%			0.00%
Mazda	17,054	2.18%			0.00%	17,054	2.18%
Mercedes	15,385	1.97%	Smarts	-	0.00%	15,385	1.97%
Mitsubishi	4,019	0.51%			0.00%	4,019	0.51%
Nissan	63,148	8.08%	Infiniti	7,041	0.90%	70,189	8.98%
Porsche	1,531	0.20%			0.00%	1,531	0.20%
Subaru	18,098	2.32%			0.00%	18,098	2.32%
Suzuki	1,375	0.18%			0.00%	1,375	0.18%
Toyota	86,240	11.04%	Lexus	13,787	1.76%	100,027	12.80%
VW	18,116	2.32%	Audi	6,216	0.80%	24,332	3.11%
Others	-	0.00%			0.00%

Total		94.58%			5.42%	781,359	100.00%

Source	Various Press Releases as of 3/3/2010 6:15 AM

03/03/2010 Topics

Justices may extend gun owner rights nationwide

Every citizen in USA has a constitutional rights to carry guns. It’s in the USA’s framework and no other states can circumvent this right. It’s in the 2^nd amendment. This right was so important, that the framer put this at the top of the list of all rights.

Illinois law banning gun is unconstitutional and it should be struck down. Where there are restrictive hand gun carrying ordinances, more crimes there tend to be, in this case DC and Chicago.

The Flu Season That Fizzled

Much of the hell bulla regarding swine flu or whatever was just all hysteria. After all the fear mongering by the hysterics of this country, 2009 flu season was least severe during last 10 years.

Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny

After Microsoft’s many attempts to grab a hold of internet market share, it is now complaining and using the power of government to compete and use government as a proxy to fight its competitor. Its attempt with MSN, MSNBC, Hotmail, and rest of its properties, Microsoft has failed to make a decent dent within the Internet Search market space. Microsoft is using the regulations of know-nothings to compete with Google.

Restaurants now adding “health” charges to their bills.

Another stupid liberal ideas costing everybody as an add cost. Again, liberalism is stupid. I would tip less.

Obama’s $7 per gallon dream

How would the world and the America reduce the fantasy green house gases and reduce carbon foot print that everyone exhales. According to Harvards’ Belfer Center for Science and Internal Affiars, drivers would have to pay $7 per gallon. This is the hope and change on nothing. Another stupid idea. During last 16 years or 160 years for that matter, the CO2 level hasn’t changed at all. I detailed this before.

Lawmakers cry 'jobs' to push through bills

Why are they doing this? Wasn’t he $800 billion enough for them to waste. Again, government doesn’t create jobs, period. They can’t. Because work isn’t done by because one thinks the work has to be done. But, the work has to be there and there has to be someone who desires some work to be done. One can’t just Hope for work to exist. There is no Hope & Change.

Senate approves extension of jobless benefits after Bunning ends blockade

Senate has just allowed the further dependence on a government and furthering the high unemployment. There is a direct relation between the unemployment benefits and the static nature of unemployment number. It seems that the unemployment benefits locks in unemployed from getting the employment.

Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way

This report is saying that big bonuses and big dividends are the reasons why banks go down? Really?

JPM, JP Morgan Chase & Co. as of 12/2009

Market Cap: $165.46 billion with 3.94 billion shares

Dividend 0.20 and Yield 0.50%

Profit Margin: 17.14%

Dividends are cost of borrowing money from the share holders. If the dividends are low, their stock price would low where bank can capitalize on its value.

President Obama to Say Democrats Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Senate Health Care Reform Fix, If Not Given Up or Down Vote

Something as big as a government taking over 1/6 of US economy… something as big as changing the order of our lives shouldn’t be passed with just 51 votes. Such has not been done before. Even on Obama’s own word, it shouldn’t be done. However, because things are inconvenient and because they are the whatever-ers, they will do it.

OBAMA FLASHBACK: DEMS SHOULD NOT PASS HEALTCARE WITH 50-PLUS-1...

'WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A 60% MAJORITY IN SENATE AND HOUSE TO GET A BILL TO MY DESK'...

And here are the rest

Apple Couldn't Sue Google For Open Source Android

Is this the BlackBerry Slider? Storm 3?